Chasing yesterday

Chasing yesterday

Silver dollar birch trees
Flashing golden streams
Sky’s that stretch
Beyond horizons
Of my sight

Cool nights
Rain roofed Tin
Light cracking and
Thunder crashing
Deep into the night

Sterile places
Smell of adventure
People leaving
For everywhere and nowhere
Longing to be free

Clouds breaking
Darkening to
Deepened light
We are chasing
Our yesterdays, tonight

Waiting,
Waiting,
Waiting,
Sweet sounding
Swallows song

Sorrowful
In joyful flight
Knowing
It won’t be long
We will fight

Waiting,
Waiting,
Waiting,
Chasing yesterday’s
Tonight

Reviews

[MarkAndTheOcean]

Very lovely, Anne! Chasing days long since gone by is a theme that resonates with me and something I like to explore in my writing, life moving by and events or people that you wish you can still be with or something that you wanted to say but will never have the chance to again. People can get lost in that simple nostalgia.
A song that always reminds me of that feeling too is Vitamin C's "Graduation", with is the go-to grad song/high school song of the 90s.

~Hope you're doing well, keep it up! :)

[duff]

Cool imagery and a hypnotic rain falling down. I really like it. Nice work.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

the elusive yesterday's tonight...we wonder when and if it will ever return...if life would someday go on as normal...nature goes on, will we?
powerful piece...made me think of a line from phil collins..."he sees everything and nothing at all"

[MarkAndTheOcean]

I was getting a Phil Collins vibe too, while reading this I had the tune to "Another Day in Paradise" in my head haha